Marmalade Boy Volume 3, Chapter 3 pages 81-119 Written and illustrated by Yoshizumi Wataru Translation & editing by : Craig Nishida Additional translation by : Paul Hirose Yutaka Sasagawa Matthew Akira Klippenstein Additional editing by: Jeanne Hedge Daniel Lee Last revision : 03-09-96 Comments? Corrections? Suggestions? Please send them to: mboy-trans@soyokaze.biosci.ohio-state.edu --------------------------------------------------- p 81 1 [A view of a school building.] 2 [Carrying her racket, Miki, in shorts and sweat jacket, runs.] Miki footsteps FX: 3 [View of Miki from behind.] Arimi: [off] Miki-san. 4 [Arimi stands in a warm coat.] 5 Miki: Arimi-san... --------------------------------------------------- p 82 1 [Filler art. Miki stands with hands behind her back.] --------------------------------------------------- p 83 1 [View pulls up and back. Miki and Arimi, who carries her schoolbag, stand and face each other beside the chainlink fence.] Miki: Who are you here to see today...? Ginta? Or Yuu? Arimi: You. 2 Arimi: [dropping her gaze] I heard from Suou-kun. He said he spilled everything. Arimi: Jeez. He's got no guts, has he. 3 [Miki sweats and a few of her hairs sproing loose. Arimi's gaze turns to the side.] Miki: ...... HEY!! Arimi: Well, but I was thinking, now that the lie has been revealed, that maybe I should apologize anyway... 4 [Filler art. Arimi and Miki in matching black tops. Arimi wears a cap and Miki a ribbon.] --------------------------------------------------- p 84 1 [Sweating a bit, Miki looks skeptical.] Miki: Though you don't look like you think you did anything wrong. 2 Arimi: [a tiny smile] Sorta. Actually, maybe you should even be thanking me? Arimi: Because, thanks to me, Miki-san, your own feelings were made clear. 3 [View looking up at the sky and the barbed wire atop the chainlink fence.] Miki: [off] Huh?! What are you talking about? Far from that, I've been thrown into still deeper confusion... Arimi: [off] That's why! I'm saying that you've clearly recognized that you like both Yuu and Suou-kun, right! 4 [Miki's face turns completely red and her eyes contract to dots.] Miki: ~~~~~~ 5 [Arimi's expression turns a little vacant and sad.] Arimi: It's possible that Yuu... ...likes you. --------------------------------------------------- p 85 1 [Miki's eyes grow wide.] 2 [A pensive Arimi in profile.] Arimi: I don't know why, but Yuu doesn't open his heart to strangers. On the surface, he's friendly and sociable, but whenever he's with people, he keeps his distance. Arimi: That's why he doesn't have a sweetheart, or a close friend. It's always been that way... 3 [Miki listens silently and with eyes wide.] Arimi: [off] But somehow, the circumstances are different with you. I can't say it well, but... There's an air of tenderness beyond the usual... Whenever he's with you. Nothing like this existed up to now! --------------------------------------------------- p 86 1 [View pulls up and back again. Somehow, they've reversed positions from page 83.] Miki: That's... Because... Well, we're family... Arimi: You say "family," but it's just that you're living together, right?! Not only is there no blood relationship, but, in the eyes of the census registry, you aren't related at all!! 2 Miki: [sweating, pondering] Sure. That's true, but... Arimi: [off] But... 3 [Arimi's expression hardens slightly.] Arimi: Even if Yuu likes you... I'll never accept it. Arimi: You aren't good enough for Yuu! 4 [Miki stares back, wide-eyed.] 5 [Miki drops her gaze, looking frazzled.] Miki: Sure, maybe you think I'm not cute like you, Arimi-san, and that I don't have any particular good points, and that I don't look good with Yuu... Miki: But, to be that blunt... Arimi: [sweating] That's not what I'm saying! --------------------------------------------------- p 87 1 [Tears flowing, Arimi exclaims...] Arimi: Yuu is the only one I like. For a long time, Yuu's been the only one I've been watching. Arimi: But you waver between Yuu and Suou-kun! 2 [Miki is taken aback.] Arimi: [off] That's what I can't forgive. And that's why I won't concede to you!! 3 [Arimi stares at the ground, her tears floating away through the air.] 4 Arimi: I can't give Yuu up to someone who only thinks that much about him... --------------------------------------------------- p 88 1 [Turning to flee, Arimi casts one last tear-filled gaze back at Miki.] Arimi: So I'll never give him up! 2 [Miki reaches out.] Miki: Ah... 3 [Miki's view of Arimi running away in the distance.] 4 [Miki full-length portrait.] --------------------------------------------------- p 89 1 [With sadness, Miki drops her gaze.] 2 [She clasps a hand on the chainlink fence.] chainlink fence FX: 3 [Miki faces the chainlink fence, one hand clasping it.] narration: ......... That struck a nerve... 4 narration: But... 5 narration: Those two are completely different types... narration: And they have completely different appeals... --------------------------------------------------- p 90 1 narration: Both are dear to me. I like both of them a lot. That's how I honestly feel. 2 [Miki closes her eyes and wearily rests her cheek against the arm that rests against the fence.] narration: Even though she points that out... narration: I... Don't know what to do... 3 [Arimi rushes off amidst the departing Touryou students.] 4 [Yuu spots her off-panel.] Yuu: Oh! Arimi...? 5 [Arimi turns to look back, eyes still streaming with tears.] --------------------------------------------------- p 91 1 [Yuu stands silently as Arimi flings herself into his arms. She clenches her eyes tight.] 2 [Tight shot of Yuu's surprised face.] 3 [Other students turn to stare.] 4 [Yuu remains standing, arms at his side. Arimi clings to him. Students gather to watch.] Yuu: Aren't you with the wrong partner? Suou is the one you... Arimi: That was just an act to make Miki-san jealous. But you knew that!! 5 [Sweating, Yuu stares up at the sky.] Yuu: ......... Yuu: Well, I had a vague... 6 [Tight shot of Arimi's face, partly buried against Yuu's chest. She's still crying.] Arimi: I love you... --------------------------------------------------- p 92 1 [She clenches her eyes shut, tears streaming down her face.] Arimi: I can't forget. Arimi: Do something. Help me...!! 2 [Yuu looks sadly into the distance.] 3 [View of a school building.] --------------------------------------------------- p 93 1 [Tight shot of the hallway sign outside a classroom.] sign: Year 1, Class B Meiko: [off] And then? 2 [The pigtailed girl and her blonde short-haired friend stop to gossip with Miki and Meiko in the hallway.] short-haired girl: Yeah. While he was calming the crying girl, they left. But I couldn't hear what they were saying... pigtailed girl: [brightly] That was so-o-o cool! Just like a TV drama. 3 [As the two girls chatter on, Miki looks off to one side, pondering.] short-haired girl: [off] Remaining completely calm in a scene like that is just like Yuu, huh. pigtailed girl: How true. narration: Hmm. So that's what happened afterwards... 4 [Miki's view of Yuu chatting with two male classmates inside the classroom.] narration: Even though he's become the target of a rumor... narration: He remains cool... 5 [Miki is startled by a thought.] narration: "Yuu doesn't open his heart to strangers." 6 [Filler art. A portrait of Meiko--she winks at us with a smile...] caption: [in English] Meiko Akizuki Horoscope: Scorpio Bloodtype: A --------------------------------------------------- p 94 1 [Miki's pov as Ginta approaches Yuu and rests his hand on Yuu's shoulder.] narration: Come to think of it, Yuu doesn't seem to have a particularly close friend. narration: It's been quite a while since he's transferred here, but..." 2 [Again, Miki's pov as Ginta and Yuu converse.] narration: Since that match, he does chat pretty often with Ginta... narration: But of course, I wouldn't go so far as to call them close friends... 3 [Miki's pov as Ginta glances off to his left, directly back at us.] 4 [Miki looks back with eyes wide.] Miki heartbeat FX: 5 [Ginta motions for her to follow him.] Ginta index finger FX: 6 [Miki portrait overlaid on a view of Ginta and Miki standing on the rooftop of the school building.] --------------------------------------------------- p 95 1 [Ginta rests his arms on the railing, staring off into the distance.] Ginta: I've decided to wait patiently. Ginta: Until you understand that I'm better than him. 2 [Miki stands timidly at the railing, too. She looks to her right at Ginta who's off-panel.] 3 [He closes his eyes.] Ginta: I hope... ...to wait patiently... Ginta: But I'm not very patient by nature... 4 [Face colored, Ginta points to himself and yells at her. Miki flinches back a bit.] Ginta: THEREFORE!! HURRY UP AND NOTICE ME! Ginta: I'm confident I think of you way more than he does... Ginta: And I'm definitely better than a guy like that, whose thoughts you can't understand!! 5 [Eyes wide, Miki blushes.] Miki: ~~~~~~ caption: <--- Doesn't know what she should say. --------------------------------------------------- p 96 1 [The two stand at the railing facing out, both with faces flushed and eyes contracted to dots.] Miki: ......... FX: Ginta: ......... 2 [Calm again, Ginta turns towards her off-panel.] Ginta: By the way... You were in a skirt during the team session yesterday, right? Instead of sweatpants... 3 [Surprised, Miki looks back at him off-panel.] Miki: Huh? Uh-huh... Miki: Because it was warm. Miki: Why? 4 Ginta: Didn't your legs get fat during the winter? Ginta: It's been a while since I've seen them and that's what I thought... [Miki's eyes contract to dots; hairs sproing loose.] 5 [She turns on him with a vengeance, face red and fist clenched. Ginta flinches back slightly.] Miki: H--! HOW RUDE!! IT'S NOTHING LIKE THAT! I LOST MY TAN, SO IT ONLY LOOKS THAT WAY!! Ginta: Eh? But it's not only me. Everyone's saying it... 6 Miki: [off] EVERYONE?! I can't believe the boys team! It's because you only talk and don't practice seriously that you become weaker every year. Ginta: [off] WHA-A-AT?! Just watch the league matches this year! We're sure to be raised to Division 3! --------------------------------------------------- p 97 1 Miki: [smirking] I wonder... At only a level where you, Ginta, can be a regular player. Ginta: [glaring] Why you-u-u . 2 narration: Joking this way with Ginta... Miki: Then a bet? A cake set from Loft House. Ginta: A-a-all right. You're on! narration: For some reason, it's been a while... 3 [Miki breaks out in a sunny smile.] narration: Yup. Sure enough... narration: This way's nice. 4 narration: It's useless to worry and brood over this and that. narration: Let the feelings take their natural course... narration: And having a lively and cheerful time is best, right...? --------------------------------------------------- p 98 1 [A tennis ball strikes just inside the line.] tennis ball FX: 2 [Miki looks cross-court at her shot as a smiling teammate watches it.] girl: Nice shot! 3 girl: Amazing, Miki! You're in top condition. [Miki is all smiles as she drapes an arm behind her head in embarrassment. She's wearing a sweatsuit and a caption points to it.] caption: Worried about what Ginta said and wore sweats today ---> Miki: Ohh. Well... 4 Miki: [wide grin] You could say I've sorta shook it off this way... girl: [off] What? Miki: HA! HA! HA! Miki: Oh no, it's nothing really, but... 5 narration: But... narration: This "in top condition" didn't last long... [Smiling, Miki prepares to serve.] Miki: Next one's comi-i-ing. 6 narration: A new, unforeseen crisis awaited me... --------------------------------------------------- p 99 1 [Tight shot of the hallway sign outside a classroom.] sign: Year 1, Class B 2 [Wearing a smile, Miki enters, waving. Yuu trails her, looking disinterested as usual.] Miki: Good morning! Yuu: Yo. 3 [Ginta was talking to the pigtailed girl and her blonde short-haired friend, but all three turn towards her with faces of consternation.] Ginta: MIKI! FX: pigtailed girl: Miki! 4 [Miki stands there as they gather around her.] Miki: ? What's the matter? pigtailed girl: It's awful-l-l! Ginta: Did you know? About Meiko. Miki: Huh...? 5 [Filler art. Portrait of a sweet-faced Arimi.] caption: [in English] Arimi Suzuki Horoscope: Leo Bloodtype: O --------------------------------------------------- p 100 1 [The others pov as Miki stares back, blankly.] pigtailed girl: [off] They say that Meiko and Natchan... Were going out together!! 2 [Miki portrait. She is stunned.] 3 Miki: You're kidding... No way... pigtailed girl: It really seems that way! 4 pigtailed girl: [stricken] I heard that a parent who lives in the area saw Meiko returning home from Natchan's apartment early in the morning. girl: It seems there were also rumors from before that the two of them were meeting alone in the library... 5 [Against a swirling background is a profile of Miki's stunned face.] pigtailed girl: [off] And then, yesterday, it turned into a huge problem at the PTA meeting... And Meiko was called into the principal's office just now... narration: You're kidding... narration: I didn't know that. I hadn't heard! --------------------------------------------------- p 101 1 door FX: [off] 2 [View from the door of the three turning to look.] pigtailed girl/Miki/Ginta: Ah! 3 [View pulls back into the classroom. All the students turn to look at Meiko, who stands silently at the doorway.] 4 [Meiko stands at her desk, and picks up her schoolbag. Everyone is still staring, including Miki and Ginta.] schoolbag clasp FX: chair FX: 5 [Meiko turns to walk away, schoolbag in hand.] 6-7 Miki: [crying out] M-- MEIKO!! --------------------------------------------------- p 102 1 [Meiko pauses at the door, back towards the class...] 2 [...and she casts a somber look back over her shoulder.] Meiko: For the time being... I've been suspended from school. 3 [Meiko's pov of the stunned Miki and Ginta and the rest of the class.] 4 [With a gentle smile, Meiko waves and walks out.] Meiko: Bye-bye. 5 [Miki rushes to the doorway and cries out into the hallway towards Meiko's retreating back.] Miki: MEI---- --------------------------------------------------- p 103 1 [Miki's pov of Meiko as she walks away.] 2 [Portrait of Miki.] narration: Meiko... 3 [Ginta looks on, shocked and concerned.] 4 [Yuu rests his chin in his hand, seated at his desk. No surprise on his face since he already knew...] --------------------------------------------------- p 104 1 [Exterior shot of the school building.] schoolbell FX: 2 [With a determined look, Miki slides open the classroom door.] door FX: 3 [In the hallway, she pauses to look back at Ginta.] Ginta: Miki! Ginta: You're going to Meiko's place, aren't you? I'll go, too... 4 Miki: [soft smile] Uh-uh. I'll go alone. Miki: Let me go alone, please. 5 [Her pov of him. He stares back with concern.] Ginta: Yeah... Okay... --------------------------------------------------- p 105 1 [View from the upper-floor classroom window as Miki rushes off across the school grounds.] 2 [It's Yuu's pov. He rests an arm over the sill and looks out at Miki off-panel.] 3 [Miki portrait, as she looks up at something in front of her off-panel. She seems unsure of herself.] ===Sidebar=== FREE TALK (4): When I'm drawing the manuscript with my assistants, I'd end up watching the screen if it were TV and I easily get tired of CDs, so it is oftentimes the case that I turn on the radio. But oftentimes, the DJ's boring, or sleep-inducing music floats out, so for a long time I'd been thinking (I'd like to get cable radio, but I wonder how it's installed?), just when Yazawa Ai took the initiative." I asked her and understood how to do it, so all that's left is the strength to carry it out, right... Lately, when it comes to the sort of stuff I'm listening to, I'm not interested in the en vogue "Being" genre, but rather, my favorite would have to be Dreams Come True, and I also often listen to Mr. Children, Bridge, B#, and the like. I wonder whether Miura Rieko-chan's new album's coming out... (I'm hooked on her voice, y'know...) --------------------------------------------------- p 106 1 [Miki stands at the gate to a fine mansion.] narration: Whenever I see it... narration: It's such a fine house, isn't it... Meiko's place... I need a little courage just to press the intercom button . 2 [Something catches Miki's eye off-panel.] 3 [Miki's view of Meiko, closing the front door behind her.] door FX: 4 [Miki greets her friend with an ecstatic smile.] Miki: Meiko! Meiko: I saw you coming from the window. 5 Meiko: [warm smile] I'm sorry for making you worry. Meiko: Shall we take a little walk? 6 [A gray panel.] --------------------------------------------------- p 107 1 [View looking up at a clock in the park. It is 3:57.] 2 [Meiko and Miki walk, Miki trailing her friend by a couple of paces.] 3 [Miki profile.] 4 Miki: I heard you're going out with Natchan... Miki: Is it true...? [Meiko, walking ahead of Miki, registers surprise.] 5 [Meiko turns to one side, dropping her gaze.] Meiko: It's true. 6 [Miki is silent and wide-eyed.] --------------------------------------------------- p 108 1 [View looking up at the sky.] Meiko: [off] ...... I stayed over... 2 [Profile of a pensive Meiko.] Meiko: ...at Natchan's apartment last Saturday. Meiko: But it wasn't like what everyone's thinking... 3 [Miki watches her friend off-panel, wide-eyed.] Meiko: [off] That night... 4 [View pulls up and back. We look down on the two, standing on a path in the park.] Meiko: My father, who's not usually at home, got into a fight with my mother, who got drunk and came home late at night. My parents... Are always in a state of cold war, but occasionally, when they explode, it's awful. 5 Meiko: [off] That day as well, it turned into some awful name-calling... And finally, I couldn't take it anymore, and I ran out of the house. And then I went to sensei's place. --------------------------------------------------- p 109 1 [The flashback panels are in grey. Here, Namura-sensei answers his door.] Namura-sensei: [flashback] Meiko?! Namura-sensei: [flashback] This late... What happened? 2 [Meiko's eyes are streaming tears.] Meiko: [flashback] Sensei...! 3 [She rushes into his arms.] Meiko: [flashback] I can't take it anymore. I hate a home like that!! 4 [Back to the present. Meiko stands with eyes dropped.] Meiko: Sensei listened to my story in silence... Meiko: And I cried until I fell asleep. And all the while, he held my hand... 5 [A flashback image of Meiko asleep in bed, with Namura-sensei seated on the edge of the bed, holding her hand.] 6 Miki: You explained that to the principal, didn't you?! He didn't believe you?! Meiko: He told me he believed me. At least for now... --------------------------------------------------- p 110 1 Meiko: [off] But it *is* true that we were dating... And he said now that it's become a huge uproar like this, he couldn't very well avoid handing out some sort of punishment... Miki: ......... 2 Miki FX: 3 [Miki's view of Meiko, whose eyes have welled with tears.] 4 [Meiko claps both hands over her mouth and looks stricken.] Meiko: Even if I'm suspended from school. Even if I'm expelled. Anything is fine... Meiko: But if it turns into something like sensei getting fired... What should I do...? --------------------------------------------------- p 111 1 [Meiko clenches her eyes shut and hangs her head. Tears stream down her cheeks.] Meiko: To think I caused him all this trouble... But back then, there wasn't anything I could do. Meiko: There wasn't any other place to go to...!! 2 [Miki stares wide-eyed at her friend off-panel.] Miki: Meiko... narration: To me... You could have come to my place... 3 [View from high above. Meiko buries her face in her hands as Miki stands by silently.] 4 [View of the same clock in the park. It is 4:38.] --------------------------------------------------- p 112 1 [The two of them are now seated on a park bench. Half the length of the bench separates the two.] Miki: ......... With Natchan... How long...? 2 [Meiko has stopped crying, but she stares vacantly ahead.] Meiko: I've known him since the spring of 3rd-year junior high. That we knew that we liked each other was... Maybe about a half a year later. 3 [Surprised, Miki turns to look at Meiko off-panel.] Miki: It's been that long?! 4 [Miki looks at the ground in front of her, a bit flustered.] Miki: I... I see-e-e. I hadn't noticed at all... Miki: What a surprise... 5 [Miki's pov of Meiko, who stares without expression at the ground in front of her.] 6 [Tight shot of the schoolbag resting in Miki's lap.] Miki: B-but... I wish you'd told me. Miki hands FX: Miki: Before I found out like this... --------------------------------------------------- p 113 1 [Sweating, Miki stares at a point in front of her.] Miki: I know it's something that's difficult to talk about... But I wouldn't have told anyone else... Miki: That you were keeping such an important thing like this a secret, even though you're a close friend... I'm a bit shocked... 2 [Meiko still stares expressionlessly ahead.] 3 Meiko: [off] Because you're a close friend... Do I have to tell you everything? 4 [Miki turns to stare at Meiko off-panel.] --------------------------------------------------- p 114 1 [Meiko gets to her feet as Miki watches her from her seat.] Meiko: Does being close friends mean... ...laying bare each other's weaknesses and wounds and everything... Meiko: And consoling and pampering each other? 2 [Sweating, Miki stares wide-eyed.] Miki: ......... Meiko...? 3 [Miki's unfocused view of Meiko's back as she stands and looks away from her.] Meiko: If it's a sticky friendship like that... Meiko: Then I don't want it. --------------------------------------------------- p 115 1 [Miki's shattered portrait.] 2 [Tight shot of Miki's feet.] 3 [View over Meiko's shoulder as Miki turns and runs away. Meiko doesn't turn around to look.] Miki footsteps FX: 4 [Meiko profile.] 5 [Far too late, Meiko turns with a stricken look...] Meiko: Mi... --------------------------------------------------- p 116 1 [Meiko's view of Miki, running away in the distance.] 2 [Meiko stares off-panel.] 3 [View pulls back. Meiko stands quietly.] 4 [Exterior day shot of the Koishikawa-Matsuura residence.] 5 [Yuu sits reading on the sofa.] front door FX: [off] Miki footsteps FX: [off] Miki bedroom door FX: [off] --------------------------------------------------- p 117 1 [Yuu turns to look off-panel.] Yuu: Miki...? 2 [Tight shot of the sign hanging from the knob of Miki's bedroom door.] 3 [Inside, Miki leans back against her closed door, and stares at the floor.] 4 [View focuses in on her face.] 5 [Yuu stands in the hallway outside her closed door.] Yuu FX: Yuu: Miki? Is something wrong? --------------------------------------------------- p 118 1 [A closeup of Miki's face. Tears pool in her eyes and trickle down her cheeks.] Yuu FX: [off] Yuu: [off] Miki? 2 [Her flashback pov of Meiko's back.] narration: If it's that kind of friendship... narration: Then I don't want it. 3 [Miki clenches her eyes shut and the teardrops tumble down.] 4 narration: DON'T WANT IT. --------------------------------------------------- p 119 1 [Pov pulls back and up. Miki still stands crying at the door. She rests a hand against her face.] Miki: (MEIKO...!!) Miki sobbing FX: 2 [Profile of Yuu standing outside, staring at the closed door in front of him.] --------------------------------------------------- -------------------End of Chapter------------------ --------------------------------------------------- Scorecard: Miki <---> Yuu ^ ^ | | v | Ginta (-?-) Arimi Meiko <---> Natchan ^ | | Tsutomu Rumi <---> Youji ^ ^ | | v v Jin <---> Chiyako ---------------------------------------------------